"I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream."

"I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically."

"I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it."

"Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism."

"I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything."

"Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love."

"It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening."

"A lot of truth is said in jest."

"My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."

"I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked."

"I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit."

"If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something."

"I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad."

"Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person."

"It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter."

"When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap."

"Fame hit me like a ton of bricks."

"Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end."

"Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion."

"I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it."

"To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway."

"There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'."

"Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found."

"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed."

"I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?"

"Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion."

"I need drama in my life to keep making music."